Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-04-13
THE WEST.

THE saline beds near Lincoln, Neb., are
about to be leased by the State to Chica-
60 association.
The city of Peoria. ILL.,, owns sulphur
we'll eighteen hundred feet deep. The
mayor has been instructed to bore it still
further, in the hope of obtaining gas.
In extending the Manitoba road from
HN. Paul to Helena, it is proposed 10 lay
from nix to seven miles Of track every day,
and to use two hundred car loads of mater
tal each twenty.four hours. Work has
aommsnoed at Minot, OAK.
MEMBERS Of the Michigan Legislature
are said to be highly indignant over the
request of the Toledo and Ann Arbor road
TOR tns return Of annual passes, especially
as 1t is assured by the company that passes
are Illegal under the inter- state law.
SEVERAL wealthy cattlemen Of Southern
Oregon are under arrest on q charge Of
fencing public land.
A sIx-FooT driftway is being rapidly
constructed under the St. Clair River, near
Port Huron, BY General Sooy Smith. Men
are working from shafts ON either side.
NATURAL gas was found in q hill near
West Covington, Kentucky, at . depth Of
$50 feet. Money has been subscribed to
snk we'll at La Porte, Ind.
R1PoRTs come from Madison that prop.
ssty for extensive docks at Manitowoc has
pan purchased by the Burlington and
Northern road.
Tm Commissioner Of the General Land
Oencs has recommended to the Secretary
OF the Inssrsor for approval for patent .
4st Of Lands lying within the limits Of the
Unieu Pactns railway in Nebraska, between
Midway, in Dawson County, and Big
Springs, in Keith County, aggregating
'36l. $50 acres.
Z TRAM.wnRCKHns removed rail on the
Carolina Central Road, twelve miles east Of
Charlotte, which resulted in prscipitaing
- engine and tender Of the east bound
passenger train down an embankment
twsave feet. The engineer and fireman
fwsfs dangerously il mot fatally injured. No
other casualties havs been reported.
TIN Missouri Pacific round house at
Omaha burned recently. destroying four
toesnotives. Loss, $35,o0o; insurance,
Miss FANNIE v. BALDWIN, second
cousin OF tho San Francisco millionaire,
whom she once attempted to kill for q
rfiminal assault, has been temporarily
pommitted to the Home for tho Friendless
Sn Chicago, proceedings in insanity being
suspended.
EVIDENCE taken BY the Grand Jury at
Ogden, Utah, showed that in three room
house IN that city live Willard Bingham,
two wives, twenty unmarried children, iive
married sons, with their wives and ilftsen
children. and two hired men in the attic.
BY the explosion Of the heating appaya-
tus in . Wabash coach number Of pas-
sengers were severely injured and vindows
and seats shattered.
H. T. BLACKSTONE, who embexxlsd
$4,000 from bank in Portland, Maine,
was captured in Winnipeg By shsri6,
who followed his wife from homs.
THE miners who are on strike on &C.
count Of the reduction made the Arst of
the month by the Union Company held
another meeting q Hibsrnian Hall. Dss
Mo'pss. H., but nothing decisive was done
~ the matter. Itwas sisted b coal OPP
orator interested that thA miners eoucludsd
Y ify snd ct work n olhes mines II this
y. vaeaiity md Il they were not snccsssfnl
saey xcnle hld ans1hea sseslinS dthat